Drowned in anger! Hardik Pandya got big punishment, losing his temper in LIVE match was costly, BCCI took strict action

IPL 2026: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has taken major action against Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya. Major action has been taken against Indian pace all-rounder Hardik Pandya for losing his temper in anger in the Indian Premier League (IPL 2026), under which Hardik has received major punishment. What did he do for which action was taken against him by BCCI and Indian Premier League, let us tell you about it today.

BCCI took big action against Hardik Pandya

Actually, the 65th match of IPL 2026 was played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians. In this match, Hardik Pandya was found guilty of violating Level 1 of the Code of Conduct. Hardik has been found guilty of violating Article 2.2 of the IPL Code of Conduct. This pertains to the misuse of cricket equipment or clothing, ground equipment or fixtures and fittings during a match. For this he has been fined 10 percent of the match fee. Along with this, he has also been given 1 demerit point.

🚨BIG: ACTION ON HARDIK PANDYA 🚨

🔸Hardik Pandya has been fined 10% of his match fee and accumulated one Demerit Point for breaching Article 2.2 of IPL’s Code of Conduct.

🔸The incident during KKR’s chase, when Pandya, walking back to his run-up, knocked the bails of the… pic.twitter.com/3df6lpWXhW

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Why did Hardik Pandya get this punishment?

Hardik Pandya has received this punishment for showing anger during the live match on the field. He lost his temper in anger on the field and made a huge mistake, due to which he has been given this huge punishment. In the second innings of the match being played between Mumbai and Kolkata, i.e. in the 10th over of KKR’s innings, a catch was missed in Hardik Pandya’s over. After this he had to concede two fours also. After this he vented out his anger on Bells angrily. In anger, he dropped the bails from the wicket and hit the ball hard on the ground.

If players are not ready to corporate, it’s better for pandya to leave and move ahead rather then facing this Humiliation.

Many franchises are ready for Pandya at big price along with Captaincy role🤔🤔#MIvsKKR#hardik#Rohit#Surya#Bumrah#edangarden

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Let us tell you that on the second ball of this over, Rovman Powell’s easy boundary off Pandya’s ball was missed by Deepak Chahar and Robin Minz. Both the players were confused as to who would take the catch. No one took the catch and the catch was missed. After this, Manish Pandey hit him for 2 fours. In this match, thanks to Manish Pandey’s inning of 45 runs, KKR achieved the target of 148 runs given by Mumbai at the loss of 4 wickets and won the match by 6 wickets.

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